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The camera was working as 2012 Ohio Officer of the Year, Orlando Smith, was responding to a call for help from another officer. But the camera shut off just before he hit a pedestrian in the roadway. It came back on after that.

"I was adamant that I wanted a full report on the fact that the camera was checked after incident number one, which was last year," Blackwell said.

It was the same officer and the same camera that had the same kind of malfunction when Smith was involved in an incident where he shot and killed a drug suspect.

Dontez O'Neil allegedly pulled a gun before he was shot to death. In that case, Smith's camera was working before and after the shooting, but not during.

The family of Natalie Cole, the woman who was hit in the latest incident, is upset.

"None of this is adding up, none of it," Natalie’s aunt, Sandra Cole said."I mean how does your camera keep shutting off every time you're involved in something? It doesn't seem right to me," Cole said.

Police sources said they think it would be technologically impossible to tamper with the recorded information from the camera. They said with this style of camera, the hard drive would have to be removed from the trunk, then altered and put back in the short amount of time before other officers arrived.